Machine for making types and type-bars.



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MAOHINE POR MAKING TYPES AND TYPE BARS.

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MAGHINE POR MAKING TYPES AND TYPE BARS.

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FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

I-/ACHINE FOR MAKING- TYPES AND TYPE-BARS.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. e, ieee.

Application filed July 16, 1908. Serial No. 4&3,878.

To all whom it' muy concern.'

Be it known that I, Francis H. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States, residing in Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Types and Type-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

An application for this improvement was originally filed on h arch 6, 1901, under Serial No. 50,016, and was allowed on August 15, 1905, and forfeited for the non-payment of the final fee. On August 7, 1907, it was renewed under Serial No. 387,421 and reallowed on September 9, 1907, and was again forfeited for non-payment of the final fee.

rlhis invention relates to machinesl for making types and typebars, and particularly to that class of such machines which operate to produce a type through the medium of a die or a die-like instrumentality.

It is an object of this invention to provide a machine in which any one of a number of dies conveyed periodically past the typeforming point may be caused to operate thereat.

It is an object, also, of this invention, to provide a machine in which any one of a number of dies conveyed periodically past the type-forming point may be caused to operate thereat by a rolling action, that is to say, which forms type as the result of a cycloidal movement of a die with respect to type-formable material located at the type-forming point.

It is an object, furthermore, of the present invention to provide a machine in which a die or die-like instrumentality normally located in a dilferent plane to that of the portion of the stock or blank upon which a type is to be formed may be shifted into such plane and caused to operate.

The accompanying drawings illustrate a machine embodying` my present invention, and in these drawings Figure l is a plan view of such a machine, the key-board and a portion of the operating levers being omitted. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the machine, parts being shown in section while other parts are wholly omitted. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the machine, parts also in this figure being shown in section and certain of the parts being omitted. Fig. l is a sect-ion on the plane of the line 4 4, in Fig. 2, looking in a direction of the arrow adjacent to that line. Fig. 5 is a section on the plane of the line 5-5, in Fig. 2,

looking in the direction of the arrow adjacent to that line. Fig. 6 is a section on the plane of the line 6-6, in Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow adjacent to that line. Figs. 7, 8, 9, and l0 are elevational views representing different axial positions assumed by certain of the parts when the same are shifted axially to bring difterent dies into the operative plane. F ig. 11 is a perspective view on a somewhat larger scale than the preceding views representing a portion of a partly finished typebar having a number of types upon its edge. Fig. 12 is a view of a detail coneernedin the rotatio/n of die-wheel. Fig. 13 is a cross section on the plane of the line 12-13, in Fig. 1Q, looking in the direction of the arrow adjacent to that line. Fig. la is a similar section on the same line but looking .in the opposite direction. Figs. 15 and 16 represent the development of the circumferential surfaces of different die-wheels. Fig. 17 is an enlarged elevational view of a portion of a typebar-blank representing a die in the act of operating thereon to produce a type and indicates also the preliminary treatment to which the edge of a bar is subjected to isolate thereon a type-block. Fig. 18 is a detail view of a portion of a device designed for isolating a type-block on the edge of a blank.

Similar characters designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The terms normal and normally are used herein to indicate positions which may be assumed by operative parts when arranged for operation, but not in operation.

ln carrying out my invention the several dies are conveyed. periodically past the typeforming point, and for attaining this periodic motion of the dies they may be mounted upon a carrier. Such carrier may conveniently be a rotary carrier or turret, as shown, and which is designated generally by T. This turret T, in the present ease, embodies a shaft 2 mounted at one end in bearings formed in or supported by an end frame 3, erected upon the base-frame, designated generally by B. of the machine. At the other end this shaft 2 is journaled `in a bracket 4; extending from the opposite end frame which is also secured to the baseframe B. This base frame B may be of any l suitable construction and form for support- Y cured together a single wheel or drum may ing the various operative parts of the machine. In the present construction, end disks 6a and 6b secured to the shaft 2 constitute with the latter the turret T.

The dies employed for the production of a type may be of any desired form appropriate to the particular mode of action which it is proposed that a die shall have: For instance, each die may be a plain die unprovided with any accessory part, or parts, or the die may be supplied with a retaining lip upon one or both sides acting as a wall to confine a movement in the mass of typeformable material upon which the die is operating and direct such movement transverse to the blank. f

For the purposes of the present illustration, a die, designated generally by D, is shown provided with a retaining lip d adapted to enter a cross slot in the edge of a bar, which serves to isolate a portion thereof, and upon which isolated portion the die acts. In the present case, also, the blank, designated generally by C, is disposed in the same or an approximately parallel plane to that of the path described by the die in its progressive movement toward and away from the blank, but the relative position of the latter may be varied. It may have its longitudinal edges trimmed also as vshown in Fig. 17 'to remove the bulk of the excess material prior to the formation of types on the blank.

According to the present invention, a number of dies are disposed transversely with relation to the plane of that portion of the edge of the blank upon which a type is about to be made, any one of which dies is adapted to be brought or shifted into that plane for the purpose of operating upon the blank to form a type. This operative plane is designated by PHP, in Figs. 7 to 10, inclusive. For the purpose of increasing the number of dies capable of being operated in the machine, dies may also he located around the periphery of one or more die-wheels, as shown, and to render each die upon the periphery of a wheel operative to form a type each wheel is adapted to be rotated and shifted axially to bring any particular die on that wheel into juxtaposition with the blank at the type-forming point.

The various movements of which a diewheel is capable, that is of rotation and axial shifting as the turret rotates, may be conveniently effected by attaching the samev to a shaft 7. Two suoli shafts are shown in the present instance each provided with a set of die-wheels, (each die-wheel with its dies being designated generally by S,) and each of which sets comprises four wheels. 1t will, however, be manifest that instead of using separate die-wheels Srrigidly sebe used having the dies disposed thereon axially and also around its periphery.

Each shaft 7 is mounted in the turret T, and adapted to be rotated in its bearings as well as shifted axially of the turret axis to bring any die into the operative plane and to the operative or type-forming point as the turret rotates. Each shaft in the present case is mounted in the disks 6a and 6b. Rotation of a shaft 7 to bring a desired die D rotarily to the type-forming point as the turret rotates may be effected in any suitable manner, or the mechanism illustrated herein may be adopted. As shown, this mechanism comprises a sleeve 8 movable longitudinally or lengthwise of each shaft 7, but compelling the latter to rotate with it by means of a feather 8 extending from the shaft and engaging with a slot, (Figs.` 13 and 14) in the sleeve. Movement of each sleeve 8 in one direction serves to engage a gear-wheel 9 attached to the sleeve with a driver 10, here shown to be an internal gear-wheel. The disengagement of the gear-wheel from its driver is occasioned by a movement of the sleeve in the opposite direction. The former of these to and fro movements results, in the present instance, from the coaction of a fixed actuating member or cam 11, secured to a stationary portion of the machine with a coacting member or cam-arm 12, one for each sleeve S, moving in unison therewith. Normally, that is when no die is operating or moving to an operative position, each cam-arm 12 will occupy a position such that it will not contact with the cam 11 during the rotation of turret T. Vhen, however, a shaft 7 is set rotating upon its axis the sleeve 8 rotating in unison with it will at some period of its rotary and orbital movement swing the arm 12 into contact with the cam 11, whereupon the continued rotation of the shaft about its own axis during its revolution about the axis of the turret will cause the shifting of the sleeve S endwise and eventually the engagement of the gearwheel 9 thereon with the driver 10. A positive rotation of the shaft will then ensue upon the further rotation of the turret. A similar device may be used to return each sleeve S to its original or inoperative axial position and withdraw the gear-wheel 9 from engagement with the driver 10. This device may consist, as here shown, of an oppositely-facing fixed actuating member or cam 13, secured to a stationary portion of the machine, and a coacting member or camarm 14 projecting from each sleeve. The length of this fixed cam 13 and the relation of its position to that of the cam 11 is such that it will not operate to return a sleeve to its normal or inoperative position until after the operative die on the die-wheel S attached to the shaft of that sleeve shall have completed its work, when, by virtue of the continued rotation of the turret the arm 14 is brought into contact with the cam 13, and the sleeve is shifted backwardly in a manner similar to that already described with reference to the action of cam 11 and cam-arm 12.

It is important for the correct operation of the machine that, whenever a shaft 7 ceases rotation about its own axis, it shall come to rest in the same definite position each time. This result is accomplished, in the present instance, by a device which I may term a precision-brake, comprising, as shown for each shaft, a detent 15 supported at the end of a spring-arm 16, secured at the opposite end disk 6b", and which is adapted to engage with the notched portion of a boss 17 affixed to each shaft and 4to coperate therewith to bring the shaft to rest in a definite position.

The means illustrated in the drawings accompanying the present specification for initiating the rotation of each shaft 7 and for continuing the same until the gear-wheel 9 of the sleeve 8 encircling` the shaft engages with the driver 10, comprises a starting-arm 18 extending` from each shaft. The construction of each of these starting-arms is such as to cause its coaction with a projected latch of a latch mechanism, a form of which will presently7 beV described, and the construction and operation of the arm may be such as set forth in Patents llos. 401,371 and 573,620, granted to me on April 16, 1889, and December 22, 1896, respectively, which patents may be consulted for a more detailed description. Suffice it here to say that the starting-arms on the die-wheel shafts 7, 7 are arranged in different planes transverse to the axis of the turret T, and are each provided with a resetting heel 19 for resetting the projected latch as set forth in said patents.

ln the operation of the machine each shaft 7 is given a definite amount of rotation from the commencement of such movement up to a fixed point, that is, the point where a die on a die-wheel on that shaft is to operate, and these amounts of rotative movement are different, though equally definite, for each die. In other words, a shaft is started in rotation at different points in the circle of rotation of the turret T according to t-he particular type which is to be formed. For the purpose of securing these various degrees of rotary movement as aforesaid a number of selective devices (herein shown in the form of latch mechanisms) may be employed, which are disposed around the axis of rotation of the turret T. Each latch mechanism is provided with a latch adapted when disengaged to protrude into the path of the corresponding starting-arm when swung around by the rotation of its shaft. The various latch mechanisms for operating any single shaft 7 may be supported in a latch frame, while the latches are disposed in the same plane transverse to the shaft as the particular starting-arm with which they are designed to cooperate.

Figs. 7 to 10, and 12 to 14, inclusive, show certain means which may be used for retaining each sleeve 8 in its two axial positions corresponding to the engaged and disengaged positions of the gear-wheel 9 on the sleeve. es shown, these means comprise a disk e for each sleeve having an angular edge which is adapted to engage with annular notches or recesses o oa and hold the sleeve in a corresponding position as the latter assumes one axial position or the other during the rotary and orbital movement of the shaft which it encircle's. Each disk fv, in the present instance, is supported by spring arms v3 from its sleeve 8 which permit the disk to slip from one notch and cause it to Ien,0 ,'a,0e with the other as the sleeve is shifted axially, leaving the shaft free to move lengthwise of the sleeve.

Referring now to the particular construction set forth in the accompanying drawings, each latch frame E comprises flanges 21 and 21 extending axially of the turret shaft and from an extension 3b of an upright 31 through openings in which flanges the several latches 22 pass. A latch frame is, in the present instance, located on each side of said upright 31, and the several latches 22 are held in their respective flanges 21, 21 by means of retaining plates 23,23. Tn number these latches 22 correspond to the number of dies D disposed around the periphery of any single die-wheel S, and each latch is held in its normal or retracted position by the engagement of a shoulder 24 upon the latch with the edge of one of the flange openings in which it is located, engagement being assured by a spring 211D, which tends to force the latch toward the side of the opening. When released by the disengagement of the shoulder 24 from the edge of the opening the latch is thrown inward by a spring 25 against a stop 26.

Each latch 22 is released and permitted to be thrown inward by means of an actuator, designated generally by E, whose curved upper end according to the present construction is adapted to bear against the latch and is properly guided to actuate the same by means of guides 27, 27.

Tn the present instance, the actuators E are operated by a series of rock-levers, designated generally by 28, which are shown fulcrumed intermediate their ends to a fulcrum bar 28 extending between brackets 282, 283 projecting downwardly from the base-frame B. The rocklevers 28 are not connected directly to the actuators E in the present construction but serve to operate them through the medium of a set of swinging frames 301, 302, 303, 30, one for each actuator. Each of these frames, in the present instance, comprises a cross-rod of suitable length and designated 'generally by 31, each frame being provided with a suitable elevating spring 311. The several cross-rods 31 are :t'ulcrumed by side links 82, 32 to a tulcrum bar 28 extending between the brackets 282 and 282. There is a set of these swinging frames 301, 302, 803, 304, for each set. of actuators E designed to cooperate with the starting-arm 18 on a die-wheel shaft 7 and to each of which actuators a trame is connected. To enable a particular rock-lever 28 to operate a particular frame those portions ot the underside of the other rock-levers in the set in which the lever in question is included and which lie adjacent to the other cross-bars 31 ot the set of trames are removed or cut away, as indicated, so as to render that lever operative only to actuate the frame desired.

It will be plain from the foregoing description that upon the depression oic a rocklever 28, the frame upon which it bears and consequently the actuator F/ connected to it will be operated, resulting in the protrusion of the corresponding latch 22 into the path of the corresponding starting-arm 18 it the same be swinging. Through the operation of the described mechanism a particular die will be brought to a position i'otarily in juxtaposition to the type-forming point, although it may not be in the operative plane. lt may be mentioned that these rocklevers 28 may be provided with keys (not shown) on their outer ends to facilitate their operation and with elevating' springs as usual. The operation of any particular lever 28, however, serves not only to initiate the rotation of ashait 7, as aforesaid, but also to shift the shat't axially to bring the particular die which is being brought rotarily into juxtaposition to the type-forming pointinto the operative plane, in the event that such die should be out of that plane. Any suitable mechanism may be provided for accomplishing` this result, or that herein shown, which will now be described.

lt may be premised in the particular einbodiment herein set forth that the turret T as a whole is shifted axially through the operation ot th mechanism designed to shift the die-wheels axially. A vibratory shitting lever 33 (see particularly Figs. 1 and G) forked at its end and provided with pins B3" entering an annular groove 34 in a boss on the shaft Q ot the turret- T is adapted to be swung on its pivot-pin 35 to shift the turret axially by means of a plurality ot actuating devices, herein snown in the form ot cams 3S, 37 and Normally, the shitting lever 33 is drawn to one end of its vibra tory movement by a spring 3S) in which position ot the parts a die-wheel on each shaft 7 lies in the operative plane P-P, as shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 7. Hence the actuation of these rock-levers 28 which are referable to the dies on the die-wheels normally lying in the operative plane will effect no axialV shifting of the turret, but serve merely to initiate the rotation of the die-wheels. The shifting lever 33 may, however, be swung forward against the tension or said spring 39 by means of a roller 40 adapted to bear against said cams. These cams 36, 37 and 38 are adapted to be shifted axially along a splined rod 41 by means of a rod 42 provided at its upper end with a cam-shifting lever 42h. One end of this lever 42b is forked and provided with pins 43, 43 which enter an annular groove 4231 in an extension of the body of the cams 36, 37 and 38, while the lever is pivoted at 43C intermediate its ends to a fixed portion of the frame and clonnected by an arm 44h to a swinging trame 4A fulcrumed to brackets 54, 54 adjacent to opposite ends of the machine. This trame 44 is provided with a depressing spring 44C and a number of cross-rods 46 disposed above the rock-levers 28, any particular one of which latter when actuated may be caused to impinge, by means of a contact projection 4Gb, of said lever, against a particular cross-rod of the frame and so enable the frame to be swung upon its'tulcrum while the other levers are inoperative to accomplish such movement oi: the frame. It will be noticed that these cross-rods 4G ot' the frame are arranged at ditlerent distances from the fulcrum axis ot the frame, hence the amount of arc through which a frame is swung will depend upon which cross-rod 46 the contacting portion 46h ot the actuated rock-lever 28 bears against, assuming that each rock-lever is capable of the same amount of angular movement, which is the case here. Hence by reason of the different amounts of movement that may be imparted to the frame 44 the different cams 36, 37 and 38 may be brought into contact with the roller 40 to shift the turret T axially a corresponding amount.

It will be noticed, particularly in Fig. 2, that the axial face of each cam 86, 37 and 3S, at a certain portion of its periphery is in substantial alinement with a correspond ing portion of the other cams. Hence when these portions are in contact with the roller 4() the latter is unobstructed in its movement across the axial faces of the entire set of cams.

Motion is imparted to the rod 41, acting as a driver to rotate the cams by means of gears 4S, 48, driven from a shaft 40 provided with a gear-wheel 50, meshing with an intermediate gear-wheel 51, which in turn is driven from the turret shaft 2 by means ot' a gear-wheel 52. A band wheel or pulley wheel W may be attached to the tached to the feed-wheel shaft 7. When the g the die-wheel shafts into contact with this feed-wheel shaft is set in rotation by means g of the projection of a latch the actuator 78 is brought into position through the rotation of the turret to coact with a plunger 79 and depress the same by reason of the impingement of the actuator during its revolving and rotating motion as it rolls over the head of the plunger, which seats itself in one of the notches 7 8b in the edge of the actuator. This plunger 79 is connected to a lever 80, which in turn is connected by a link 81 to an arm'82 rigid with a shaft 83, from which latter the arm 84 of the saw 77 extends. Hence, when the turret T is rotating and the feed-wheel shaft 7 is rotating about its own axis, the plunger 79 will be actuated to push the saw across the edge of the blank in the holder 74 and form a cut therein to remove excess material at the side of the type-block and between it and an adjacent portion to be afterwards formed into aftype. A spring 89 serves to elevate this plunger 79, withdrawing the saw into the position shown in Fig. 2 and permitting the proper operation of the die.

Since the proper procedure in the operation of the machine requires the feed-wheel shaft 7 to operate in advance of either diewheel shaft 7, it is essential that when a latch 22 has been projected as a result of depressing a key that the firstv starting-arm to engage with it shall be a starting-arm 18 on the feed-wheel shaft, as otherwise a die might be brought to the operative or typeforming point before the portion of the blank previously provided with a type has been shifted away from the operative point. To preclude, therefore, an incorrect operative procedure, the rock-levers 28 in the present illustrative embodiment are locked during the entire rotation of the turret T, except for that portion of such rotation represented by the angular movement of the turret from a position in which the startingarm 18 on the shaft 7 of the last die-Wheel has just passed out of possible engagement with any latch 22 in the series located in its plane to a position in which either of the starting-arms 18', 18 on the shaft 7 of the feed-wheel 58 can engage with the first latch in either frame if the same be projected while the starting-arm is advancing toward it. If, during this portion of the turrets rotation a latch is projected, it is evident that the first starting-'arm to contact with it will be one of those on the feed-wheel shaft, and since, as before stated, neither of these starting-arms is provided with a resetting heel, the latch will remain in its projected position even though the shaft of the feed-wheel has been swung around and set in rotation, as already pointed out. Further movement of the turret will bring the corresponding starting-arm on one of same latch and result in an identical amount of rotation of the latter shaft, whereby kthe operative die will form a type, as explained.

The locking means provided in the present case consists of a number of disks 90 secured to the shaft 49, and lying in such a position with respect to the several rock-levers 28 as to prevent the actuation of any one of the same, except for such previously described period, through the medium of a pin 90 extending from each lever and entering an annular groove 91 in its corresponding locking disk 90. The outer wall of this groove 91 is removed at one portion only of its circumference, (see 91 Figs. 4l and 5,) corresponding to that period in which a lever may be actu-- ated to secure the proper procedure in the various movements and operations of the machine.

Although no means have been particularly referred to for reducing the height between words and combinations of words such as exists in the ordinary typebar, some suitable means may be used for the purpose acting to roll or crush down the material of the blank or in any other way. F or a feeding of the blank also representing these typeless portions of the bar, a key and its lever 28 may be so combined with the feed-wheel 58 and a nie-wheel that while it causes the first to operate in the manner aforesaid, it will bring a portion of the die-wheel unprovided with a type in juxtaposition to the blank.

A machine organized and constructed in the manner described and set forth in the drawings, operates substantially in the following manner: Assuming that a rock-lever 28 has been depressed, which 'it-will be evident from what has last been said can occur only when a proper sequence of operations is assured, that frame of the series 301, 302, 30"", 804l with which the particular lever is designed to coperate will be actuated, resulting through the movement of the corresponding actuator E in the projection of a latch 22. his same movement of the rocklever may effect, as pointed out, the shifting of the cams 36, and 38 to bring a particular one of them into Contact with the crunroller 40, thereby resulting in the axial shifting of the turret T longitudinally. 1t is plain from what has been described that the first starting-arm to engage with the projected latch will be a starting-arm 18 of the feed-wheel shaft 7, which shaft, in consequence, causes the impingement of the feedwheel 53 against the feed-arm 55 and the shifting of the blank-holder 7 4. Continued rotation of the turret T will result in the movement of the saw 77 to isolate a typeblock at the rear of the one about to be operated upon. The next starting-arm to engage the latch, resulting in the formation of a type in the manner described. Further movement ot the turret `will cause its' axial shifting, carrying the die-Wheel which has been shifted into the operative plane7 out ci the same and effecting' the return of the various garts to their original positions.

Having described my invention 1 claim:

1. The combination ivith an orbitally rotatable carrier, of a die mounted thereon and normally located out or the plane in which it operates, and means tor shifting' the die into that plane.

2. T he combination with an orbitally rotatable carrier, of a die mounted upon said carrier and normally located out ot the plane in which it operates, and means for shifting it into that plane and conveying it past the type forming point. l

3. rlhe combination ivith an orbitally rotatable carrier, of a die mounted on said carrier and normally located out of the plane in which it operates, and means for shifting,` it into that plane and tor conveying it periodically past the type forming point.

4t. The combination with an orbitally rotatable carrier, ot' a die mounted on said carrier and normally located out of the plane in which it operates7 means tor shifting` it into that plane and for conveying it periodically past the type formingl point, and means for rendering the die operative to form a type.

5. T he combination with an orbitally rotatable carrier, of a number of dies mounted upon said carrier and normally located out oit the plane in which they operate7 and means forshitting any one of the dies into that plane.

G. The combination with an orbitally rotatable carrier, of a number of dies mounted upon said carrier and normally located out of the plane in which they operate, and means tor shifting any one of the dies into that plane and for conveying them past the type forming point.

7. The combination With an orbitally rotatable carrier, ot a number of dies mounted upon said carrier and normally located out otl the plane in Which they operate, and means tor shifting` any one of the dies into that plane and for conveying` them perodically past the type forming` point.

8. The combination with an orbitally rotatable carrier, of a number of dies mounted upon said carrier and normally located out ot the plane in which they operate, means for shittingany one ot' the dies into that plane and for conveying them periodically past the type forming point, and means for rendering' the shifted die operative to form a type.

9. The combination With an orbitally rotatable carrier, of dies mounted thereon and normally located in a plane parallel to the plane in Which they operate, and'means for shitting the dies into that plane and for ren dering one of said dies operative to form a type.

10. rlhe combination with an orbitally rotatable carrier, oi a number ot dies mounted thereon, some of said dies being` disposed transversely ot', and some of said dies being disposed parallel to7 the plane in which a die operates7 and means for shifting a die int-o that plane and for rendering` it operative to form a type.

1l. The combination with an orbitally rotatable carrier, of a number ot die Wheels mounted on said carrier and disposed side by side and Which are rigid With respect to each other, and means for shifting the Wheels axially for rotating these to render a particular die operative in the formation of a type.

12. rllhe combination with an orbitally rotatable carrier, of 'a die mounted thereon, a lever and intermediate mechanism for shifting the die into and out ot the operative plane, and means for rendering` the die ope ative to form a type.

13. The combination with an orbitally rotatable carrier, ot a die mounted thereon, a lever, an intermediate mechanism comprising a cam for shifting the die into and out of the operative plane, and means for rendering the die operative to form a. type.

1l. lThe combination with a number of dies mounted on orbitally rotatable carriers, of levers and intermediate mechanism comprising a series ot cams tor shitting` a particular die into the operative plane and for rendering the shifted die operative to form a type.

15. The combination with a number of orbitally rotatable die-Wheels disposed side by side and which are rigid With respect to each other, of levers, means controlled by the levers for shifting any particular die into and out of the operative plane, and means for rotating said Wheels to render a particular die operative to form a type.

16. The combination with a number of orbitally rotatable die-Wheels, oli levers, cams corresponding to the dies normally located out of the operative plane7 and means for rotating said die-Wheels to render any particular die operative to form a type.

17. The combination With a number of orbitally rotatable die-Wheels, of levers, cams corresponding to the dies normally located out ot the operative plane, and means operatively connecting a particular cam with a particular lever..

18. The combination with a number of die-Wheels7 of levers, cams corresponding to the dies normally located out of the operative plane, and means comprising` a swinging frame having cross bars at different distances from the fulcrum axis for rendering a particular cam operative from a particular lever'.

19. The combination of a series of levers, and a swinging frame having a number of cross bars, some of said levers being operative to swing the frame by means of one bar and other levers being operative to swing the frame by means of another bar.

Q0. The combination of a series of cams, a series of levers, a swinging frame having cross bars disposed at different distances from its fulcrum axis, means connecting said frame with said cams, and a shaft for rotating the cams.

21. The combination with a number of dies disposed in different planes, of a series of cams, a series of levers, a swinging frame having cross bars disposed at different dis- 1 tances from its fulcrum axis, means connecting said frame with said cams, and a. shaft for rotating the cams.

22. The combination with a number of dies aranged in different planes, of a series of levers, and a swinging frame having cross bars disposed at different distances from its fulcrum axis, one of said bars being operatively connected with some of said levers and another of said bars being operatively connected with another of said levers.

23. The combination with a number of latch mechanisms, of actuators therefor, and a series of frames each connected to an actuator.

24. The combination with a number of latch mechanisms, of actuators therefor, a series of frames each connected to an actuator, and levers for operating said frames.

25. The combination with a carrier, of dies mounted thereon, means comprising latch mechanisms for bringing a die from an inoperative to its operative position, actuators for the latch mechanisms, swinging frames to which the actuators are connected, and levers for operating the frames.

26. The combination with a rotary carrier, of dies mounted thereon, means comprising a latch mechanism for bringing a die from an inoperative to its operative position, actuators for the latch mechanisms, swinging frames to which the actuators are connected, and levers for operating the frames.

27, The combination with a rotary carrier. of dies mounted thereon, means comprising a latch mechanism for bringing a die from its inoperative to its operative position, actuators for the latch mechanism, swinging frames to which said actuators are connected, levers for operating the frames, and means for shifting the carrier axially.

2S. The combination with a rotary carrier, of dies mounted thereon, means comprising a latch mechanism for bringing a die from its inoperative to its operative position, actuators for the latch mechanism, swinging frames to which said actuators are connected, levers for operating the frames, and means comprising cams for shifting the carrier axially.

29. The combination with a rotary carrier, of dies mounted thereon, means comprising a latch mechanism for bringing a die from its inoperative to its operative position, actuatorsV for the latch mechanism, swinging frames to which said actuators are connected, levers for operating the frames, and a swinging frame operative from said levers to render different cams elfective to shift the carrier axially.

30. The combination with a rotary carrier, of dies mounted thereon, actuating and ,coacting members for rendering the dies operative, latch mechanism cooperating with said members, actuators for said latch mechanism, swinging frames to which said actuators are connected, levers for operating said frames, and means for shifting the carrier axially.

31. The combination with a rotary carrier, of dies mounted thereon, a feed-wheel, means operative from said feed-wheel to shift a typebar-blanlr, and means for shifting the carrier axially.

The combination with a rotary carrier, of dies mounted thereon, a feed-wheel, a holder for the typebar-blank, means for shifting the holder, and means for shifting the carrier axially.

33. The combination with a holder for a typebar-blank, of feedkmeclianism comprising a rotating cam for shifting the holder in its guides, and means for returning the holder to its normal position.

34. The combination with a holder for a typebar-blanlr, of feed mechanism comprising an intermittingly rotating spiral cam for shifting the holder in its guides, and means for returning the holder to its normal position.

35. The combination with a rotary carrier, of dies mounted thereon, a feed-wheel, feed mechanism operative therefrom comprising a rotating cam for shifting a typebar-blank holder in its guides, and means for returning the holder to its normal position.

3G. The combination with a die-wheel, of a shaft to which the wheel is attached, a sleeve mounted upon the shaft and which is movable axially with relation thereto, an actuating and a coacting member for shifting the sleeve axially, and independent means for shifting said die-wheel shaft axially;

37. The combination with a die-wheel, of a shaft to which the wheel is attached, a sleeve mounted upon the shaft and which is movable axially with relation thereto, an actuating and a coacting member for shifting the sleeve axially, independent means for shifting the die-wheel shaft axially, and means for retaining the sleeve in positions corresponding to its driven and idle positions.

3S. The combination with a carrier, of a die-Wheel, a shaft to which the Wheel is attached, a. sleeve mounted upon the shaft and which is movable axially with relation thereto. an actuating and a coacting member for shifting the sleeve axially, a brake for said shaft, means for retaining the sleeve in its positions corresponding to its driven and idle positions, and means for independently shifting the carrier axially.

39. rlfhe combination with a rotatable shaft, of a sleeve movable axially of said shaft, a disk mounted on and rotatable with said sleeve and movable eccentrically thereof, a member having a` curved and grooved face fixed concentrically with l said sleeve, and means for shifting the disk to permit the engagement of its periphery in a groove in said fixed member.

40. The combination ivith a rotatable shaft, of a sleeve movable axially of said shaft, a disk mounted on and rotatable With said sleeve and movable eccentrically thereof, a member having a curved face and a plurality of grooves therein, fixed concentrically with said sleeve, and means for shifting the disk to permit the engagement of its periphery in the grooves in said fixed member.

41. Thecombination With a rotatable shaft, of a sleeve movable axially of said shaft, a disk having an angular periphery, mounted on and rotatable .vith said sleeve and movable eccentrically thereof, a member having a` curved and grooved face fixed concentrically With said sleeve, and means for shifting the disk to permit the engagement; of its periphery in a groove in said fixed member.

12. The combination vvith a rotatable shaft, of a sleeve movable axially of said shaft, a disk having an angular periphery, mounted on and rotatable With said sleeve and movable eccentrically thereof, a member having a curved face and a plurality of grooves therein, fixed concentrically With said sleeve, and means for shifting the disk to permit the engagement of its periphery in the grooves in said fixed member.

43. The combination with an axially movable and rotatable shaft, of a sleeve movable axially of said shaft, a disk mounted on and rotatable With said sleeve and movable eccentrically thereof, a member having a curved and grooved face fixed concentrically with said sleeve, and means for shifting the disk to permit the engagement of its periphery in a groove in said fixed member'.

44. The combination With an axially movable and rotatable shaft, of a sleeve movable axially of said shaft, a disk mounted on and rotatable with said sleeve and movable eccentrically thereof, a member having a curved face and a plurality of grooves therein, fixed concentrically nith said sleeve, and means for shifting the disk to permit the engagement of its periphery in the grooves in said fixed member.

The combination With an axially movable and rotatable shaft, of a sleeve movable axially of said shaft, a disk having an angula r periphery mounted on and rotatable ivith said sleeve and movable eccentrically thereof, a member having a curved and grooved face fixed concentrically with said sleeve, and means for shifting the disk to permit the engagement of its periphery in a groove in said fixed member.

46. The combination With an axially movable and rotatable shaft, of a sleeve movable axially of said shaft, a disk having an angular periphery, mounted on and rotatable with said sleeve and movable eccentrically thereof, a member having a curved face and a plurality of grooves therein, fixed concentrically With said sleeve, and means for shifting the disk to permit the engagement of its periphery in the grooves in said fixed member.

e?. ln a typographie machine, the combination of an orbitally rotatable and axially movable shaft, a sleeve mounted on said shaft. and rotating therewith and movable axially of said shaft, a gear Wheel mounted on said sleeve, a fixed driver intermittently engageable With said gear Wheel, means for engaging said gear Wheel with said driver, and means for disengaging said gear Wheel from said driver.

48. In a typographie machine, the combination of a plurality of orbitally rotatable and axially movable shafts, a sleeve mounted on said shaftand rotating thereni'it-h and movable axially of said shaft, a gear Wheel mounted on said sleeve, a fixed driver intermittently engageable With said gear Wheel, means for engaging said gear ivheel with said driver, and means for disengaging said gear Wheel from said driver'.

rThe combination With a carrier, of a die-Wheel, a shaft to Which the Wheel is attached, a sleeve mounted upon the shaft and ivhich is movable axially with relation thereto, an actuating and coacting member for shifting the sleeve axially, a brake for said shaft, means for retaining the sleeve in its positions corresponding to its driven and idle positions, and means comprising cams for independently shifting the carrier axially.

50. The combination with carrier, of a die-Wheel,- a shaft to .vhich the Wheel is attached, a sleeve mounted. upon the shaft and vvhich is movable axially ivith relation thereto, an actuating and a coacting member for shifting the sleeve axially, a brake for said shaft, means for retaining the sleeve in its posit-ions corresponding to its driven and idle positions, means comprising cans for independently shifting the carrier axially, and levers for rendering the said cams effective to shiftthe carrier.

51. The combination of a blank holder, a blank-slotting device, a fixed support adjacent to the blank holder and on which the slotting device is mounted, means for actuating such device and thereby slotting the edge of the blank to produce a series of type-blocks, type-making mechanism for forming types upon said type blocks, and means carried by said mechanism for preventing the longitudinal displacement of the type-block which is being worked upon.

52. The combination of a blank holder, rotary type making mechanism for making a succession of type along the edge of a blank in the holder', a blank slotting device, a fixed support adjacent to the blank holder and on which the slotting device is mounted, and means operative from the rotating type making mechanism for actuating said device and thereby slotting the edge of the blank.

53. The combination of a blank-holder, a pivoted cutter for slotting the blank to space the same off into type-blocks upon the edge of such blank, means for shifting the blank a predetermined distance variable with the type-face to be produced, typemaking mechanism embodying means for forming types and means for preventing the longitudinal displacement of the type-block being worked upon.

54.-. The combination of a blank holder, rolling type making mechanism for rolling a succession of types along the edge of a blank in the holder, the plane of the rolling being in line with the blank, a blank slotting device, a fixed support adjacent to the blank holder and on which the slotting device is mounted and means for actuating such device and thereby slotting the edge of the blank.

55. The combination of a die carrier having groups of dies thereon, some at least of the groups of dies being normally out of the plane of the working point, selective mechanlsm comprising a lseries of key levers, a number of cams equal to the number of groups of dies normally outside of the plane of the working point, and transmitting mechanism between the die carrier and the cams and between the key levers and the cams for rendering the cam corresponding to the actuated key lever operative to shift the selected die into the plane of the working point.

56. The combination of a plurality of independently rotatable die carriers having groups of dies thereon, some at least of the groups of dies being normally out of the plane of the working point, selective mechan- 1sm comprising a series of key levers, a number of cams equal to the number of groups of dies normally outside of the plane of the working point, and transmitting mechanism between the die carriers and the cams and between the key levers and the cams'for ren- 57. In a machine for making a line of` wrought type a device for slotting the edge only of the blank, said slotting device being mounted independently of the type-making mechanism, said type-making mechanism, and means carried thereby for entering said slots for preventing the displacement of the same. p

58. The combination with a blank-holder, a blank-shitting device, means to actuate such device and transversely score the edge of the blank, rolling type-making mechanism for producing a succession of types along the edges of the blank in the holder, and means for entering the scoringV to prevent the displacement of the blocks formed thereby.

59. The combination of a blank holder, means for transversely scoring the edge of the blank at predetermined intervals, rolling mechanism acting in a direction longitudinally of the bar in the holder, and means movable in unison therewith for entering the scoring to prevent displacement thereof.

60. The combination with a die mounted on an orbitally revoluble carrier and normally located out of the plane in which it 'on a revoluble carrier and normally located out of the plane in which it operates, of means for shifting it into that plane, and means for conveying it periodically into and out of the type-forming point with a working movement.

62. The combination with orbitally movable die wheels adjustable rotarily and axially, of means for adjusting the same axially, latch mechanisms for adjusting the same rotarily, actuators therefor, and a series of frames each connected to an actuator.

63. The combination with a series of dies, of an orbitally movable body carrying the same, means for adjusting said body angularly and axially, latch mechanisms for producing the angular adjustment, actuators therefor, a series of frames, each connected to an actuator, and means for axially adjusting the same and comprising -a num-` ltype-blocks along the edge preparatoryto the formation of the types thereon and means for reciprocating such cutter.

65. The combination of a blank holder, type making mechanism for making a succession oiu types along the edge of a blank in the holder, a blank slotting device embodying a reciprocatory saw, a lixed support adjacent to the blank holder and on which the savv is mounted, and means for reciprocating said saw and thereby transversely slotting the edge of the blank.

G6. The combination with a blank-holder of type-making mechanism for producing types along the edge of a blank in the said holder, a blank reciprocatory slotting device adjacent to the holder, and means for reciprocating such device transversely of the holder.

67. The combination with an orbitally rotatable carrier, of a die mounted thereon, a lever and intermediate mechanism for shifting the die into and out of an operative plane for rendering the die operative to form a type.

68. The combination With a number of orbitally rotatable die Wheels rigid one With the other, levers, and means controlled by the levers for rotating said Wheels to render a particular die operative.

Signed at Nos. 9-15 Murray St., New York, N. Y., this 10th day of June, 1908.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

lVitnesses FRED. J. DOLE, HENRY E. GREENWOOD. 

